Example sentences of "in a [adj] [noun] [pers pn] can " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , whereas in a face-to-face meeting I can say I 'm Joe Bloggs , on the telephone I must say This is Joe Bloggs or Joe Bloggs is speaking with third person verb agreement ( but see Schegloff , 1979a ) ; in contrast in Tamil we would have to say on the telephone the equivalent of Joe Bloggs am speaking , with first person verb agreement . |
| 2 | However , in a well-maintained aquarium they can reduce the chances of disease . |
| 3 | In a curious way you can understand what is being said only by letting your mind slip into the same fuzzy state Shepherd 's must have been in when he spoke . |
| 4 | But we still need to know how , I mean maybe in a participatory democracy we can defend freedom and equality to the system not in it seems absurd to say that democracy we have now is a way of embodied freedom I mean maybe weak notion of equality , but nothing |
| 5 | Available in a wide range they can be used in many attractive combinations |
| 6 | In a strange way it can actually contribute to the success of many marriages , for not every woman wants to spend her life with an eternal Romeo . |
| 7 | If you are in a violent relationship you can get additional legal protection . |
| 8 | When kept as individuals in a mixed community they can bully other smaller species but they are in the main more peaceable than the average marine fish . |
| 9 | However , the content through which these mathematical skills are taught has a set of messages all of its own and because we live in a capitalist society we can easily be unaware of these messages — about the exploitation of labour , the sexism , the inequalities based on racism and social class — that are all a part of the ideology of capitalism . |
| 10 | In a capitalist society you can not escape the impact of money on your own welfare . |
| 11 | In a similar way we can use the die figures for the early imperial bronze coinages minted at Corinth to calculate that the total value coined over a century was only about half a million denarii , or less than 5000 per year . |
| 12 | In a similar way we can first examine ray average costs and returns to scale along a ray . |
| 13 | In a similar way we can mock an accent or dialect , projecting a stereotyped figure more in the manner that stage actors do than in the manner that mere quotation provides … |
| 14 | This is so sensitive that in a noisy office it can pick up an unamplified solid electric guitar from about 12 inches and show the exact pitch on the strobe . |
| 15 | Take a pair of binoculars with you so that when you spot surface activity in a distant area you can use them to confirm or otherwise that it is bream which are the cause . |
| 16 | Here in a vast amphitheatre you can dance the night away to a brilliant light and laser show , a stage show , and fountains shooting straight out of the sea , with the floodlit backdrop of Bodrum castle across the far side of the harbour . |
| 17 | In a limited way we can understand this , because for all of us certain dates stand out with striking significance . |
| 18 | In a softer yarn it can be used as a bedjacket and for girls or slim ladies , it makes an excellent skirt when sewn into a tube . |
| 19 | In a rural constituency it can be some small town ; in the ten constituencies of Dublin , a suburb . |
| 20 | Style is important , but in a long document it can be very time consuming to check that the headings , subheadings and body text all conform to the same pattern . |
| 21 | In the period immediately before a race it is worth eating something sweet to provide glucose and drink plenty of fluids since in a long race you can become dehydrated and can lose up to 5lb . |
| 22 | In a short essay the sections will be paragraphs ; in a long essay you can combine the paragraphs into titled and or numbered sections and sub-sections . |
| 23 | And hopefully the business as a whole in a competitive environment they can be more responsive more flexible to new requirements as they come along . |
| 24 | Erm the service continues next term with me starting and then Mike taking over half way through and what I 'll be doing is supplying the general two theoried two theoretic semantics that I 've been talking about erm two specific instructions in a natural language I can get what six |
| 25 | Although in a numerical case we can find the degeneracy of AB by evaluating and studying C , it is instructive to examine ( 18 ) in numerical cases . |
| 26 | In a short distance you can travel from lush tropical forest to frozen pools and ice-water scree . |
| 27 | If we live in a free society we can not carry out experiments on the real world so it would not be possible to go ahead and build the road just to see what would happen . |
| 28 | ‘ Well , I moved out , came to live here in a rented house I ca n't really afford , Susan sold the flat , which seemed a bit more than a symbolic act , I continued to love her and miss her , I tried to understand what she felt and hoped it was something she 'd eventually work through so that we could be together again . |
| 29 | You know it might land on her her bed , see if it landed on our bed at least you can chuck the blankets off and protect her and take her out of the room , but when she 's in her own bedroom in a single bed you ca n't , you ca n't do things like that . |
| 30 | In a scouting role they can be used to pin down enemy troops by getting within 8″ of them and thus preventing march moves . |